The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 12

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TREASURES ON THE WORKERS’ BOOKSHELF The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen- Twenty, by Louis F. Post, Assistant Secre- tary of Labor of the U. S, from 1913-1921. Published by Charles H. Kerr & Co, For sale, Workers Party Literature Department, N THWSE days of Secretary ot State Hughes’ effort to create a new red scare in order to cover up the stupidity of his attitude toward Soviet Russia, this book of the former Assistant Secretary of Labor Post makes interesting reading, The law- less, unconstitutional procedure of Attorney-General Palmer and _ his agents, the methods manufacturing the red scare, the kind of “evidence” used to save the face of the govern- ment officials when their actions were challenged, all these show what “hon- est” government officials will do in order to make their case, In summarizing his story, Mr. Post can find no other comparison to in- dieate the character of the “red raids” of 1919-1920, than the methods of secret police in the blackest days of Czarist Russia. No one who will read his calm,—careful statement of the facts about the attack on the Com- munist Party of Ameri and the Communist Labor Party wi disagree with his characterization, unless he happens to belong to that group in our social system which was re- — for, and profited by these Tail Mr. Post begins his story with the May Day bomb explosion in 1919 and traces the development of the sys- tematic propaganda through which public opinion was prepared for the arrest of more than four thousand men and women at the end of the year. Coming down to the raids themselves he takes up in detail the activites of the agents of the Depart- ment of Justice in New England, New York and vicinity, Philadelphia, Pitts. burgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, ete. In each instance the number of persons arrested, the illegal actions of the agents of the Department of Justice, the suifering of hundreds of men and women _ARE YOU ENJOYING “THE DAILY Thousands of workers all over the country are reading Thousands are proclaiming it the best daily paper ever published in America. packed together in crowded cells, cor- ridors of public buildings ana every character of makeshift prisons, with- out food, without sanitary provisions, unable to communicate with their friends, are set forth. Altogether the picture drawn of the descent of the Department of Justice agents up- on the four thousand workingmen and women, whose rights under the law and ag human beings were ab- solutely disregarded by Mr. Palmer’s detectives, makes one of the blackest pages in American history. Following his striking picture of the nation-wide raid, Mr. Post takes up typical cases of those arrested and shows over and over again the ab- surdity of the charges against the victims of the raid. He deals in de- tail with his own action on many cases, particularly those which were later the cause of impeachment pro- ceedings against him. The impeach- ment proceedings are described. This book is not only a creditable piece of work for Mr. Post, who has rendered the service of presenting the truth about an historic event which is a damning characterization of “American Democracy.” It is an epic of the Communist Movement in the United States. A movement which has withstood an attack such as Mr. Post describes, which has main- tained its organization, which in spite of the terrorism directed against it by the powerful federal government using all the forces at its commana still stands before the workers of this country, voices its principles and is winning influence and leadership, such a movement will live and grow. It cannot be destroyed. In its re- sistance to and victory over Palmer’s terrorism there is the determination and spirit which promises future victory. #8. Mexico—An Interpretation, by Carleton ‘it Beals. Published B. W. Huebsch, Inc., New York. Price $2.50. Readers who want to know what is happening in Mexico in the struggle | between Obregon and De La Huerta cannot do better than to turn to this book by Carleton Beals. In it one finds the key to the maze of revolu- tions and counter-revolutions which have shaken Mexico during the past ten years. The impression gained from read- ing Mr. Beals is that the struggle which was begun when Cortez in- vaded Mexico four hundred years ago is still going on. Eighty-five per cent of the population of Mexico he tells us is still Indian or of a mixed racial group. There still exists in Mexico ;the racial antagonism between the Aztec rulers of the land of the time of Cortez and the more peaceable Mayas, and these antagonisms are played upon by the rulers of today in their name to maintain their posi- tion as a privileged class and to sup- port the various groups of foreign capitalists who are exploiting Mexico, In his analysis of the social frabric of Mexico, which composes part three of the book, Mr. Beals presents a pic- ture of an exploited class sunk into poverty and degradation and a protti- gate ruling class such as is hardly equalled anywhere on the face of the earth today. It is any wonder that Mexicans are ready to take up arms, and fight at the slightest suggestion of anything better for themselves Daily Worker PULLMAN, ILL. Sunday, January 20th, 3 P. M. STANSICK’S HALL, 205 E. 115th St. ——Speaker—____ J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Editor Daily Worker. MASQUERADE BALL, 8 P. M. ADMISSION 40 CENTS. when it is known that millions of workers are forced to live on “kid- neys, intestines, stomach-linings” and to eke out this diet with “rats, squir- rels, ditch-eels and maguey worm?” American capitalists,- according to the figures given, own about half of the wealth of Mexico, which is a sufficient explanation of the interven- tion and threats of intervention in Mexican affairs by the government of this country. Mexico is shown, in the facts cited by Mr. Beals in re- gard to the economic interests of the American capitalists and the activi- ties of the American government. as a classie example of the working of imperialism. SHANTI IINNIENNIEK IKI III! GREETINGS! 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